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Show WEBER ACADEMY WINS IN BASKETBALL CONTEST 1 , The Weber Academy basketball I ! team surprised everyone, even itself. I ' by winning from the Oneida Stako academy team at Preston, Idaho, last I night. The score was 38 to 32 and I ! the Idaho team 1? still wondering how auch a reversal of form could be pofl-I pofl-I sihle. The "surprise" was occaslon- , ed by the fact that thf O S. A. team ' ; won from Weber a week ago by the I score of 91 to 27. The game last night was the third one to be played in the schedule of he Northprn division of the Mormon I church high school league and ther were over three hundred "rooters' present. The enthusiasm of the Web-i Web-i or supporters was at a high pitch I throughout the evening and with tho 1 help of a 20 piece juvenile band, made I all the excitement possible. ! The local team was outclassed as !' to sIzp and experience and the game I was won by them only through sheer ' aggressiveness and determination ; Both teams were In excellent form, j and the game, as a whole, was as i interesting as a "fan" could wish to 1 see. There was an entire absence of ji spectacular plays and every basket was hard earned. Weber was a little I slow on taking the ball from center. but the speed with which the Preston team took it was met with an offense that usually prevented scoring Fouls J were numerous, 17 being called on the Oneida Stake academy and 25 on I ' Weber. Of the eleven field goals i scored by Weber. Belnap secured three, and Layman and Richards four I each. Belnap three sixteen baskets from the foul line against eight by ! Chaules. for the O. S. A. Of the 12 ! field goals scored by the visitors, Barlow got four, Chaules, three, j Crockett two and Gilbert two. I The first half was exceptionally I fast, hardly a minute being lost It i ended with the score 24 to 11 in favor of the Weber acadamy. The second I half was slower, an Injury to one of I the Preston players and a difference j of opinion over the interpretation of J a rule, between the referee and the I Pre6ton coach, causing a delay of 1 over ten minutes. I The lineup was as follows: Weber Academy. Oneida Stake Acad. I Belnap If Barlow Layman .rf Chaules Richards c Crocket c j Ferrin rg Gilbert Ji Herbert lg Cutler j Referee Ashton 1 Scorers Asklin and Merrill, j Timekeepers Bingham and Neeley. I The work of Coach Ashton of the Granite High School as referee was exceptionally accurate and with one ; exception his decisions were unques- tloned. |